...— Jul. Well, do not swear; although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the...doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...DISAPPOINTMENT. A TRUE STORY. BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. " I have no joy in this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the...which doth cease to be, Ere one can say it lightens." SHAKSPERE. IT was a beautiful afternoon, in the month of May, when Madelon and Janet Howard stepped...

...swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night ! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...course complete, but in reference to practice it may be called so. Shakspeare's Juliet refers to ' the lightning ' which doth cease to be, ere one can say it lightens.' The exact velocity of electricity along a copper wire is 288,000 miles in a second. It is calculated,...

...joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, -too unadvis'd, too sudden j Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night ! . This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night ! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...swear by thy gracious self.'" Thus N. Lee: " By thy bright self, the greatest oath, I swear." 91. " Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, " Ere one can say—It lightens." The plain meaning of this passage, ere these words, "it lightens,^ can be uttered,...

...: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...

...place." A sickening spasm seized her heart : a passing glo\v tinged her cheek, and vanished — '• like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens." " The bride, if she chooses, may be happy," pursued the doctor, apparently regardless of her Demotion...